This is a full-time fixed-term contract for two years, creating a new specialist role to build connections between
the Edinburgh Festivals around their community engagement and knowledge sharing projects. We would welcome
job-share proposals as well as individual applications.

This new role will help the festivals to engage with more communities and creatives, sustaining Edinburgh's
leading festival city position locally and globally, by:

mapping the community engagement opportunities of all the festivals, creating easy to access information to
increase awareness of their offers, and extending connections with new areas and new partners across
Edinburgh

Develop and maintain up to date shared data covering all festivals’ community and schools engagement
initiatives, grouping opportunities for similar audiences, ages and stages to make them clearer and more
accessible

Collaborate to pool data into a structured geographical information system being developed
with city partners that can help inform strategic decisions about targeting engagement with schools and
communities

Build understanding and shared purpose with targeted cultural, educational and community
partners across Edinburgh; research and document their activities, interests and needs; and share intelligence
with festivals and other relevant partner organisations

Create an online promotional resource to provide
a clear overview and signposting to schools and community opportunities available through each festival, and
raise awareness of opportunities through partner channels

Identify areas with concentrations of
activities and under-served areas, and provide information and advice to help broker new partnerships and
opportunities

Work with city partners to develop a programme of activities for community and schools
contacts to share interests and needs with festivals to identify areas of potential
collaboration

Provide information and advice to prospective partners to help them understand the
festivals and help the festivals to identify new prospective partners in particular beyond the culture
sector

(ii) Professional knowledge sharing & support network (30% of time)

Work with festivals and partners such as Edinburgh Performing Arts Development, Creative Edinburgh, Event
Scotland and Federation of Scottish Theatre to research knowledge and skills needs across festivals and wider
culture sector nationwide

Identify gaps in existing provision and priority needs that the festivals
could help to address for mutual benefits

Map festivals’ current offers in professional skills
development, raise awareness through partner channels, and identify scope to increase opportunities for Scottish
creatives to participate

Develop a programme of open knowledge sharing sessions based around Festivals
Edinburgh working group meetings, featuring internal and invited speakers

Organise at least 12 knowledge
sharing opportunities annually on festival management themes, and one annual nationwide networking event each
year in 2019 and 2020

Create online formats such as interactive webcasts and podcasts, based on selected
content of the knowledge sharing programme, to widen access to knowledge sharing nationwide

Person Specification:

You will have a minimum of three years’ experience in cultural project management and/or the management of engagement
programmes, and a good knowledge of the cultural, educational and community sectors in Edinburgh and Lothians.
You will be an energetic and enthusiastic professional who combines a natural flair for collaboration with
highly developed organisational skills. We are looking for an excellent communicator who has an ability to make
everything happen on time, on brief and on budget.